Author: Montesinos, E.
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WEPEA053 Progress with the Upgrade of the SPS for the HL-LHC Era 2624
 
  • B. Goddard, T. Argyropoulos, W. Bartmann, H. Bartosik, T. Bohl, F. Caspers, K. Cornelis, H. Damerau, L.N. Drøsdal, L. Ducimetière, J.F. Esteban Müller, R. Garoby, M. Gourber-Pace, W. Höfle, G. Iadarola, L.K. Jensen, V. Kain, R. Losito, M. Meddahi, A. Mereghetti, V. Mertens, Ö. Mete, E. Montesinos, Y. Papaphilippou, G. Rumolo, B. Salvant, E.N. Shaposhnikova, M. Taborelli, H. Timko, F.M. Velotti
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • E. Gianfelice-Wendt
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  
  The de­mand­ing beam per­for­mance re­quire­ments of the HL-LHC pro­ject trans­late into a set of re­quire­ments and up­grade paths for the LHC in­jec­tor com­plex. In this paper the per­for­mance re­quire­ments for the SPS and the known lim­i­ta­tions are re­viewed in the light of the 2012 op­er­a­tional ex­pe­ri­ence. The var­i­ous SPS up­grades in progress and still under con­sid­er­a­tion are de­scribed, in ad­di­tion to the ma­chine stud­ies and sim­u­la­tions per­formed in 2012. The ex­pected ma­chine per­for­mance reach is es­ti­mated on the basis of the pre­sent knowl­edge, and the re­main­ing de­ci­sions that still need to be made con­cern­ing up­grade op­tions are de­tailed.